Candy Crush is scamming

gizmokelly

I’m stuck on level 9664. I’ve been stuck on it for days. It doesn’t seem possible to beat without paying money and buying boosters. Aren’t all of your levels supposed to be passable without spending money? I’ve been playing this game for years and this seems like a scam. I don’t need to play this game anymore if this is how you treat your customers.

christinewupp

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3440502#Comment_3440502

I agree with what you write overall @hogiedog.

But I'd like to point out that all of this has gotten much, much worse since the post was written. I'd say that the original post here got the timing about right: It was after August 2024 that things really went downhill and that impossible to beat board started to proliferate. Since then we've had the super charger and those horrible jelly fish! Those are the features that really cause the game to now be so predictable and so obviously rigged.

Are you sure that the game tracks our booster use? I'm not convinced of that at all. I see no evidence that the game knows what I have spent my gold bars on nor what boosters I have stored on my devices. Quite to the contrary: In all of my test games it offers me more and more gold to spend if I keep my gold balance below a certain level. The game assumes I've used my gold to buy boosters and that I must then have used those boosters. But that is not so.

I think all it tracks is if your gold balance goes down, but it has no idea if those boosters I bought were actually used.

I think this is what the - now simplified and entirely AI run - game tracks:

All the details you see on the player cards (which may have been the reason they got introduced)

Spending of gold or money

Which new level we are on and for how long in real time

I'm not really sure that they do track much more than that now. In fact I think the game tracks a lot less since the AI took over. It's much more of a "One set of algorithms fits all" kind of game now. It's easier to beat than it has ever been.

christinewupp

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3440502#Comment_3440502

I agree with what you write overall @hogiedog.

But I'd like to point out that all of this has gotten much, much worse since the post was written. I'd say that the original post here got the timing about right: It was after August 2024 that things really went downhill and that impossible to beat board started to proliferate. Since then we've had the super charger and those horrible jelly fish! Those are the features that really cause the game to now be so predictable and so obviously rigged.

Are you sure that the game tracks our booster use? I'm not convinced of that at all. I see no evidence that the game knows what I have spent my gold bars on nor what boosters I have stored on my devices. Quite to the contrary: In all of my test games it offers me more and more gold to spend if I keep my gold balance below a certain level. The game assumes I've used my gold to buy boosters and that I must then have used those boosters. But that is not so.

I think all it tracks is if your gold balance goes down, but it has no idea if those boosters I bought were actually used.

I think this is what the - now simplified and entirely AI run - game tracks:

All the details you see on the player cards (which may have been the reason they got introduced)

Spending of gold or money

Which new level we are on and for how long in real time

I'm not really sure that they do track much more than that now. In fact I think the game tracks a lot less since the AI took over. It's much more of a "One set of algorithms fits all" kind of game now. It's easier to beat than it has ever been.